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Mission drift in microcredit and microfinance institution incentives

Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David; Venet, Baptiste - 2017 - This version: January 2017

We analyze the relationship between Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and external donors, with the aim of contributing … to the debate on "mission drift" in microfinance. We assume that both the donor and the MFI are pro-poor, possibly at …

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Ireland's peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836-1845

McLaughlin, Eoin; Pecchenino, Rowena - 2019

In the decade before the famine, Ireland experienced a boom in Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). This paper analyses … the poor law in 1838. Many contemporary writers saw microfinance as a complex tax avoidance/reduction scheme that could …

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Fostering Micro-Entrepreneurs’ Structural and Relational Social Capital Through Microfinance

Ojong, Nathanael - 2018

This paper uses a multi-dimensional perspective on social capital to investigate how a microfinance institution can … meetings and interactions between borrowers, group-based microfinance facilitates the development of relational trust and …

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United States microfinance : regulating to promote growth

Chandra, Aruna; Arun, Thankom; Gan, Christopher - In: Review of applied economics 11 (2015) 1/2, pp. 1-27

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The Effectiveness of Aid in Improving Regulations – An Empirical Assessment

Busse, Matthias - 2015

The paper empirically assesses the impact of foreign aid on the change in economic freedom, which is closely related to the quality of regulations. We build on a relatively large panel of 77 developing countries and examine the period 2002 to 2012 using different econometric methods, including...

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